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Digital cinema: year 5: the future is still on hold.(Profile)

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the first ever commercial digital cinema screening, which took place on 18 June 1999 when Star Wars: Episode 1 screened in digital on four screens in two multiplexes, one each in New Jersey and Los Angeles. The hope of Lucas then was that by the time Episode 2 opened in May 2002 there would be hundreds, if not thousands, of screens converted to digital.

In the end just 100 screens showed the second instalment in digital and there are today just 250 digital screens around the world. Sceptics claim that it will be at least another

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